What we did learn-Personal Reflective #5

My Cultural Diversity teacher told me before that the most important material for your personal life to fight the world is Culture diversity, I asked myself why? , after few days I knew that the Culture Diversity is very important for me as my teacher said because it taught me to how to be proud of myself and my own culture, it taught me how to respect other different cultures, it made me keeping want to learn more and more about the different cultures in different places. In culture diversity class I knew the Demographics of the UAE and what is the percentage of the Muslims in the UAE. I learned about Disability insurance, how we should treat them and help them to stand again on their feet. Also Multicultural society, how the different culture deal with each other in one country.  I knew new words that I didn’t know before that concern with culture diversity like: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination. Forevermore culture diversity teacher talked about the gap year, What it the gap year? Where we should be in our own gap year? And why? The last things that I took are the examples of using culture diversity in real life like the example of UAE & Cambodia, and the speech of Barak Obama using body language. This material also made my English skills growing up as I keeping study. I am now better than the first time, I was very weak in grammar and English vocabulary, but now I am better than before, and that because culture diversity (really). A special thanks for my teacher Gregory.

Cultural Diversity & Barack Obama-Portfolio Exercise #8

Obama and Cultural Diversity

Watch this video.

How many aspects of cultural diversity/ i.e. different groups or types of people does he mention in his speech?
Give the main points of his speech and post it on your blog as portfolio exercise #7.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20233064

How many different types of people does he call on to work together?

1-Who you are? or Where you come from? or What you lock like? or Where you live?

2-Black or White

3-Spanish or Asian or Native American

4-Young or Old

5-Rich or Poor

6-Able or Disable

7-Gay or Straight

UAE & Cambodia-Portfolio Exercise #7

Part 3: Cambodia Customs and Values

Objective: To understand some similarities between Emirati and Cambodian Culture

Task: Compare Cambodian and Emirati values

Highlight in yellow all the values that are similar to Emirati values 

A. Traditional Cambodian values include a strong family identity and loyalty

B. Cambodian-born people have a respect for culture and older people.

C. Cambodian families tend to be very private and reluctant to discuss family issues or conflict with non-family members

D. Stoicism is a highly valued Cambodian character trait, reducing the tendency to complain about their health or services they are receiving

E. Modesty, particularly for women, is very important

F. Visitors to Cambodian-born people’s homes are often expected to remove their shoes, however they might not ask

G. Accepting of food and refreshments when offered may break down barriers, open communication and build trust

H. Cambodian-born people regard touching people on the head or pointing feet or shoes at them as offensive.

I. Cambodians consider it impolite to make eye contact with someone who is older or considered a superior

J. Cambodians have a tendency not to question instructions or authority

K. ‘Yes’ may be an ambiguous response to a question or request, and does not necessarily indicate agreement. Reponses that might mean ‘no’ include; no response, changing the subject, or statements such as ‘it’s OK’ or ‘no problem’ or even an unconvincing ‘yes’

L. It may take time to develop working relationships, trust and rapport

M. Loud or over-familiar behavior towards others is generally not favoured.

N. Cambodians tend to avoid showing anger or getting involved in confrontation

O. Cambodians prefer to be addressed using their correct title. For example Mr, Mrs and Dr

P. Women traditionally retain their own family names on marriage or they may have two surnames. Cambodian names are traditionally written with the surname first, followed by the given name.

Q. Cambodians may not recognise their names if they are pronounced incorrectly

R. Cambodians may not always address people by their name



Comparison between UAE & Cambodia:
*Cambodia and us have many similar things that contact us together. Our culture make us respect the people who older than us, Cambodians people too. The Cambodians families have a strong loyalty, they respect each other and they help each other. Also in UAE, the families have special feeling to each other and always being together, in one world the two culture have a strong loyalty. Women modesty, build trust, and respecting, all these features are important for the two cultures.
 

beautiful old lady

Part 4: The Beauty, Diversity and Poverty of Cambodia

Objective: To introduce Cambodia to students and to compare Emirati and Cambodian lifestyles

Tasks

1. View a photo gallery, a PowerPoint presentation, and a video from Cambodia DONE

2. Discuss :
A-The photo of statues, because these statues made me feel how hard Cambodia life is. Thanks to Allah for having houses, thanks to Allah for having schools, thanks to Allah for having work, and thanks for Allah for the good life that we have.
B-often 7 days a week, and typically earn $50 to $150 per month

3. Write a refection comparing your life to that of Cambodians :
Emirati and Cambodian Lifestyles-Reflection
The most important reason of this problem is the revenue, Cambodia have no revenue to eat. The solution for is to send groups of Emiraties volunteers to help the people there to stand on there feet again, and build the society supports for them like schools and roods.If we did not discovered the oil I think our life will be like Cambodians people, but the one different will be the deserts.






Part 5: Cambodia’s Rich Cultural History and Awe-Inspiring Temples

Objective: To introduce Cambodia’s amazing architectural wonders and consider the rise and fall of cultures

Tasks :
1. Watch two videos DONE
 
2. Discuss why cultures rise and fall
3. Write a reflection:


I think Angkor Wat looks so interesting to me because it made me wonder how the old Cambodians did build the Angkor Wat without using building machines? Angkor Wat Built between 9 and 14 century for the king of Cambodia who had a strong power, some researcher think Angkor Wat took 30 years to complete, but the most interesting thing is how the Cambodians built the Angkor Wat? No one knows. Cambodia fall down because battle that was with Kingdom of Siem.

UAE & Cambodia-Personal Reflective #4

Gap year definition is the year between finishing school and starting higher education to entitling you skills for your higher education or even for your own life. There are many benefit of gap year for the students, for example: transport yourself and promote your skill while you living there, taking some responsibility outside, and entitle yourself for studying. The UAE should start sending the students here to outside of country, but I think UAE will be too late will still late because some reasons, one of the reason is our traditions. About myself, I really would to have a gap year in Japan, I want to learn their tradition, language, and the most important for me is to learn the Anime drawing. UAE and Cambodia in the past had no connection, but now UAE and Cambodia have many things that connect between them, for example UAE is import some fruits that we don’t have from Cambodia, on the other hand UAE export the oil to Cambodia and to the other near countries.

I think the two are gaining, children and volunteers. Many people said the volunteers does not gain anything from volunteering because they does not get money or any material things, but that is wrong because the money is not every things. The first two things that volunteers get are respect and trust from the people and the country, also they educate them self with culture diversity, finally get friends. All of us can teach any skill to anybody by their desire if they want or not, that is up to them.

Answer the following-Portfolio Exercise #6

please answer the following:

Part1:
1.      Define:
a. Stereotyping: a image of a person or group
b. Prejudice: unlike a person or group of people because your feeling
c. Bias: preference
d. Discrimination: treating people differently


2.      Give an example of each term
a. Stereotyping : All hot girls are stupid
b. Prejudice :I don't wanna be with her, she will kill me. XD
c. Bias : I like to study with girls .
d. Discrimination :Emiraties should working managers  .


Part2:


ü Understanding
1. Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?
In the USA, 1969, with children of 3rd grade.
2. Describe the experiment.
This experiment made to teach the children how bad the discrimination is.
 3. What were the results?
 The two group knew what the black people feel.
4. How successful do you believe it was?
The experiment worked on the children and made them learned what different between the right and the wrong.

Shock Story-Personal Reflective #3

In the last Eid of October in 2012 ,my cousins and I went to Dubai to have a good time with each other in Wild Wadi the water park. After having a fun time we planed to have a dinner after long day in the JPR (The Walk) at Jumeirah Beach Residence. Dubai at AlEid days was very traffic because the people from every where are coming to Dubai specially from Middle East. Before we been in JPR (The Walk), we got an accident with Emirati guy who was trying to move his car front us to be with his group of friends. After the accident immediately we parked on the right waiting the police, the Emirati was very angry, also he was filthy tongue using many bad words for us, on the other hand we talked to him oppositely, and I think that what made him more angry. But the important part here when he said a few things that injured us and made us like nothing, he said :( We are the sons of the country). We did not understand what does he mean in the first time, but when he said in the second time:(Dubai is our city) he putted a lot of thoughts in our brains, and I said in my self: Are there citizens who live in Dubai thinking like the angry guy? Are there citizens in the other Emirates thinking like that? Are we thinking like that? Are there solutions that make us one hand?

Seven Emirates But One Country

(Like that we should think)

  

Words definitions - Portfolio Exercise #5

1.   Civility / civilized : having wide cultural.

2.   Acknowledge : show appreciation

3.   Inclusive / inclusion : including many things

4.   Respect : state of being admired

5.   Apology : expressing remorse

6.   Consideration : a thought

7.   Behavior : what something does

8.   Responsibility : take a care of something

9.   Attention (pay) : interest in something

10.               Tolerance : acceptance of different views

11.               Attitude (positive):a positive  opinion or feeling about something

12.               Conduct : manage something

13.               Politeness  : showing consideration for others

14.               Constructive (comment) : based on what somebody infers from other statements or circumstances

15.               Kindness : shows consideration and caring

Chinese word : means RESPECT

Sami Yusuf - Forgotten Promises

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKV2oeS4vw8